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Developer(s) | Genetic Fantasia |
Publisher(s) | Atari Corporation |
Programmer(s) | Jeremy Mika Mike Mika Robert Baffy |
Artist(s) | Jeff Burke |
Series | Bomberman |
Platform(s) | Atari Jaguar |
Release | Unreleased |
Genre(s) | Action, maze, party |
Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Bomberman Legends, also known as Jaguar Bomberman, is an unreleased action-maze video game that was in development by Genetic Fantasia and planned to be published by Atari Corporation for the Atari Jaguar.[1][2] It was going to be a unique entry in the Bomberman franchise, featuring its own dedicated single-player and multiplayer modes, with the latter having support for up to eight players by using two Team Tap adapters.[3][4]
The idea of creating a Bomberman title for the Jaguar was primarily hatched by Genetic Fantasia, which was a development company that was formed by Mike Mika,[5] along with his colleagues to Atari Corp. during a behind-the-scenes meeting at Las Vegas in 1994, with the team looking at Super Bomberman 2 in order to replicate its gameplay mechanics on the system.[3][6][7]
Though Atari acquired the license of Bomberman from Hudson Soft between 1994 and 1995, the project would be discontinued by the former sometime in 1996 along with other upcoming projects for the platform such as Black ICE\White Noise and Thea Realm Fighters,[3][8] due to Atari preparing to drop support for the Jaguar before merging with JT Storage in a reverse takeover on April of the same year.[1][9][10] Bomberman Legends was never previewed or mentioned in magazines and other publications at the time when the title was still being developed, until its existence was revealed during an online Q&A session hosted by Next Generation in April 1998.[11][12] The game was also thought to be lost, before its source code was eventually recovered in recent years by two of the original programmers of the title.[13]